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Thread #160033   Message #3797487
Posted By: DMcG
24-Jun-16 - 05:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: Logic and the laws of science
Subject: RE: BS: Logic and the laws of science
Perhaps I need to be even more explicit. Some readers might assume I am referring to the supernatural, religion, fairies and pixies and so forth when I say there MAY be things beyond science. I am not. I am saying that in the hard, physical world where Steve and others can take as many measurements as they like we cannot know whether everything is explicable using the scientific method. We know a heck of a lot is. It is a statement of belief that it all is.


What we do know, for absolute certainty, is that there are limits to mathematics. In so far as science is built on mathematics, it inherits those limits. What is unknown is whether these limits are mere interesting quirks that have no relevance to anything in the real world, or whether there is some part of reality where we will hit those limits. All we know for certain is we haven't hit them yet.